Queer PHOTO: Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black)
Gabriel GalleryMarungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) follows Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch's trip back to Country for spiritual healing - a journey from oppressive white city life in Adelaide, back home to his remote Anangu Community (Aputula) to perform on sacred Inma ground. Inma is a traditional form of storytelling using the visual, verbal, and physical. It…
PHOTO2024: Exquisite Corpse
Roslyn Smorgon Gallery 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaArticulations of identity from a queer Fijian woman with settler-colonial heritage living in Australia. Exquisite Corpse is a photographic exhibition inspired by the collaborative essence of surrealist art. Artist Salote Tawale reflects on identity and the collective migrant experience in post-colonial Australia, skillfully depicted through a collage of works delving into inherited and enduring legacies.…
Queer PHOTO: Orange Grove
Gabriel GalleryClifford Prince King documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak on his experiences as a queer black man. His monograph, Orange Grove, is dark and handsome, filled with King’s warm and intricate portraits that flow like tapestries while witnessing lovers and friends in the ether of vulnerability. With eyes wrapped around each…
Toddler Jam
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaWhen: Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30—11:15am Term 2: 26 April—28 June 2024 Ages: 9 months—5 years old. A weekly music party for toddlers & pre-schoolers to ROCK OUT with parents and care-givers! Bubs and children 1—5 years are welcome to join in, exploring singing, dancing, percussion, Auslan and self-expression. Created by Razz Mussen, this class…
TILDE Exhibition
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaFull Scale Curated by Sapphic Flicks, Full Scale speaks to the wide-ranging diversity, visibility and musical talent of trans and gender expansive artists from Indigenous and diaspora communities. A collection of music videos, documentaries and online art. Works include queer opulence from Kee'ahn, Goddess Naavikaran, Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson. Date: 3 May—5 May 2024…
TILDE Film Festival
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaTILDE Film Festival: Three days, seven sessions, twenty-four films, two exhibitions, four filmmakers in conversation panels, two massive community events featuring world, international and Victorian premieres. We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to the Elders of…
Smash to Blak Opening Night — First Nations curated by Merryn Trescott & Jamie Connor
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaSmash to Blak Opening Night — First Nations curated by Merryn Trescott & Jamie Connor Sapphic Flicks presents the Opening Night of TILDE, bringing First Nations trans folk, brotherboys and sistergirls together in celebration of our creativity, diversity of experience, and storytelling. It will be an opportunity for community and knowledge building; for our stories…
TILDE: OUR FUTURE
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreening & filmmaker in-conversation There is a wave of trans and gender expansive culture building strength. Australia's young filmmakers are breaking through with poignant and deeply complex storytelling. Featuring the world premiere of the delicately beautiful Black Trans Miracle by Tinaye Nyathi, with screenings and in-conversations with filmmakers Luka Gracie (More Than This), AP Pobjoy…
TILDE: OUR ELDERS
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreening Celebrating our icons. Celebrating elders who ensured future spaces like TILDE. Through rarely seen experimental and archival hidden gems, we open up an opportunity for our elders to look at us, as much as we look at them. Representing Takatāpui, activists and genderqueer life from the ‘70s, ‘80s and today. Starring Icons Carmen Rupe,…
TILDE: GAY24 Presents TRANS DOMESTICITY
Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, AustraliaScreenings Guest Curated by Jini Maxwell & Samantha Eckhardt At TILDE in 2024, GAY24 are hosting the international premiere of Henry Hanson’s DOG MOVIE; a film about a tenderqueer couple whose eternal couch surfer who seems immune to their passive-aggressive insinuations that it might be time for her to find a new place – until…